Professor Walid Tawfik is the Chairman of Department of Laser Applications in Metrology, Photochemistry and Agriculture (LAMPA), leader of laser spectroscopy and ultrafast lasers group and head of the central lab at the National Institute of Laser (NILES), at Cairo University, Egypt. He received his PhD on 2000 in laser spectroscopy “Study of photon molecular interaction dynamics using short laser pulses”, where he did his experiments at Technical Uni. Munich, Germany.

He is interested in the fields of laser-induced plasma spectroscopy, ultrafast lasers and ultrafast spectroscopy and smart materials applications. He has published two books’ chapters and several papers. He is a senior member of different international professional societies like IEEE, OSA, APS, and SPIE. He has collaborated with different international groups in laser spectroscopy and ultrafast lasers at Georgia Tech USA, Uni. of Electro-Communications Japan, POSTECH Uni. South Korea, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, Kind Saud Uni. Saudi Arabia, Max-Planck Inst. Germany and Lodz Uni. of Tech. Poland.